Canada's Brianne Jenner knows exactly what to expect when her squad and the United States meet Wednesday (CBC, CBCSports.ca, 11 p.m. ET) in a one-game showdown for the Olympic gold medal in women's hockey:

Elizabeth Swaney is a 33-year-old skier from Oakland, California who made the 2018 Winter Olympics with Hungary. She didn’t have the best run on the halfpipe on Monday, but you can certainly argue she had the most aesthetically interesting one. Swaney made some waves on President’s Day when she took a ski run that looked, to quote a Courtney Barnett song, Pedestrian At Best.

At 19, Elizabeth Swaney ran against Arnold Schwarzenegger to be governor of California.

The sport hasn't always been miniature rockets propelling down a man-made track at extreme velocities.

The French Alpine skier was kicked out of the Games for the comments he made to reporters after finishing seventh in theFrench Alpine skier Mathieu Faivre, the boyfriend of Olympic champion Mikaela Shiffrin, has been sent home from the Games after saying he did not care about medals won by his team mates and was only concerned with his own success. The French Alpine team confirmed on Monday that Faivre had been kicked out of the Games for the comments he made to reporters after finishing seventh in the men's giant slalom on Sunday. men's giant slalom on Sunday.

From their hilltop checkpoint, the soldiers who guard South Korea's border can see for miles across the Demilitarized Zone, to a small city in the distance on the north side. This tidy collection of high-rises and low-slung buildings is surrounded by agricultural fields. North Koreans call the place Kijong-dong, or Peace Village. The multinational troops on the South Korean side have a different name for it. Propaganda Village.

Xu Mengtao of China crashes during the Women's Aerials Finals. REUTERS/Issei Kato

South Korea has approved spending $2.6 million to cover North Korea's costs at the Winter Olympics. Senior government officials met on Wednesday to approve the budget that will pay for hosting North Korea's delegation, including 200 cheerleaders, a 137-piece orchestra, and 22 athletes. The South will cover the cost of 424 North Koreans' food, Olympics entrance fees, transportation and accommodation, with most of the delegates staying in five-star hotels in Seoul.

The Japanese short track speed skater Kei Saito has protested his innocence after becoming the first athlete at the Winter Olympics to be suspended for a positive drugs test. The news was announced by the Court of Arbitration for Sport, who said that the 21-year-old voluntarily accepted a provisional suspension after an out-of-competition test showed signs of acetalozamide, which can be a masking agent and is used as a diuretic.

Gold medalist Mikael Kingsbury of Canada on the podium after winning the Men's Moguls. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji

Sina Candrian of Switzerland competes in the Women's Snowboarding Slopestyle Finals.REUTERS/Issei Kato

Gold medalist Simen Hegstad Krueger of Norway, silver medalist Martin Johnsrud Sundby of Norway and bronze medalist Hans Christer Holund of Norway on the podium after the Men's 15km + 15km Skiathlon. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard

Dutch fans attending the 2018 Winter Olympics took a shot at U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday. The Netherlands’ Carlijn Achtereekte, Ireen Wust and Antoinette De Jong scored the gold, silver and bronze medals respectively in the women’s 3,000-meter speed skating event in Pyeongchang, South Korea.

The Republican National Committee is catching heat on Twitter after it encouraged people to support Team USA at the Winter Olympics by buying this old beanie from President Donald Trump’s website...

Carlijn Achtereekte of the Netherlands celebrates after winning gold with second placed Ireen Wust of the Netherlands and third placed Antoinette De Jong of the Netherlands (R) after the Speed Skating Women's 3000m Finals. REUTERS/Phil Noble

Sweden's Charlotte Kalla wins the women's skiathlon to secure the first gold medal of Pyeongchang 2018.

Athletes from North Korea and South Korea marching under the same flag in the opening ceremonies of the 2018 Olympic Winter Games was a significant symbolic moment for many. Vice President Mike Pence, in Pyeongchang to lead the U.S. delegation, was not impressed, however. The Washington Post’s Anna Fifield described “huge cheers” when the unified Korea team entered the stadium on Friday. She also said it appeared that everyone in the VP’s box stood to acknowledge the moment — except Pence and his wife, Karen.

Winter Olympics security guards had to throw US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un out of the Opening Ceremony on Friday.

Former figure skater Yuna Kim of South Korea lights the cauldron. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj

From Tuesday to Thursday night, cases of the highly infectious bug leapt from 32 to 128.